As the house faces south, the garden is in full sun for most of the summer and when the weather permits, guests are quite welcome to take tea or relax on the patio. The garden is well stocked with a variety of azalea, phlox, hostas, herbaceous plants and small shrubs and, depending on the time of year, you can watch osprey from the garden as well as buzzards, a huge variety of small birds and various species of butterfly. You may even catch a glimpse of our family of stoats playing at breakfast time!

Tawny owls nest across the paddock - their young can be heard being taught to hunt, red leg partridge and lesser spotted woodpeckers also nest close by and are regular garden visitors. Mallards nest in the courtyard and garden but hide themselves well.

Woodpeckers at the nut feeder	A Siskin in the garden
A Mallard and her ducklings shelter behind a plant pot in the courtyard	A red legged partridge wanders the garden